Lenda Swaikowsky Stella, age 95 of Stratford, passed away on Friday February 9, 2007 in Lord Chamberlain Health Care Center Stratford. Mrs. Swaikowsky, a retired assembler for Sikorsky Aircraft, was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania to the late Frank and Julia Lenda and has been a long time area resident. She was the widow of Roman Swaikowsky. Survivors include her beloved children Raymond Matthews and his wife Sharon of Stratford and Tracy Rafter and her husband John of Hilton Head, SC, 5 grandchildren Jill Ransome and her husband John, Jason Matthews and his wife Anne, Brian Matthews, Jay Rafter and his wife Michelle and Kendal Ableson and her husband John, 6 great-grandchildren and a sister Millie Trombetta of Vermont. Funeral services will take place on Tuesday February 13th at 10:15 a.m. in the Adzima Funeral Home 50 Paradise Green Place Stratford and at 11 a.m. in St. Michael the Archangel Church Bridgeport for a Mass of Christian Burial. Interment will be in St. Michael's Cemetery Stratford. Friends may call on Monday from 4-7 p.m.